Koval ( Houdini Research Diary) doesn’t mention him being in Kansas City at all in September 1915.So did he perform in Kansas City in September 1915? It just so happens that I have the October 1915 edition of Will Goldston’s The Magazine Of Magic, with the article “ Harry Houdini – His Latest Escape”.īut nowhere in the above “ Harry Houdini His Latest Escape” article do we see a date. So what is this mention by Will Goldston? Well the Sept 29 th, 1915 date in Minneapolis is well sourced, so that leaves the Kansas City date that needs more research. There is a very nice discussion on The Magic Cafe Forums but nothing is definitive. Silverman says it was hanging forty-five feet from the office building of the Minneapolis Evening Tribune on Septemsourced to a newspaper in the Stanley Palm collection. Kalush via a mention by Will Goldston says it was September of 1915 in Kansas City. Where and when did Houdini first perform the suspended straitjacket escape?Īnd of course, when I am intrigued by something, this blog is what you get.The experimental ward in Family Life was based on ‘Villa 21’, a short-lived therapeutic community set up by David Cooper-the doctor who coined the term ‘anti-psychiatry’-in the 1960s at Shenley Hospital, Hertfordshire.I was intrigued by a question that John Cox brought up on his blog: These films staged authentic depictions of ECT treatment filmed on location at real NHS hospitals, but also represented alterative therapeutic communities where psychotherapy and art therapy allowed individuals to express rather than repress their differences.
Laing, who inspired Morgan! writer David Mercer and with whom he collaborated on his later screenplays for In Two Minds (1967) and Family Life (1971). The film should be understood in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement, which challenged coercive practices of modern psychiatry such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as well as questioning the very idea of ‘madness’.Īnti-psychiatry is associated with key radical psychiatrists, most famously R.D. The image of him hoisted aloft in the straitjacket was used heavily in the film’s promotion, and not only symbolises psychiatry and society’s view of him as ‘mad’, but also evokes the spectacle and liberatory potential of Houdini’s escapes. This descent (or escape) into ‘madness’ sees Morgan admitted to a mental hospital in the film’s finale. Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, 1966.
0 kommentar(er)
